Section 5.3 seems to cover this as well. There is only a problem if, say,
you use a similar logo and similar domain name.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trademark_policy#FAQ-fakearticle
That said, to the extent that we care about not being confused with mirrors
and forks, we should perhaps consider using a well-defined customization of
Vector (with some colors and other visual features that are not the same as
the default MediaWiki install) on the core WM sites. Then there would be
even less of a chance of any confusion; or of any possibly unintended
trademark conflict.
SJ
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 6:13 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cananian(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
Not having read the policy in depth, I'll say that
the firefox project
(for example) handles this situation by reserving trademark rights,
but then granting very liberal automatic licenses to aspects of the
trademark if you meet certain conditions. So one might resolve the
situation with wikipedia by saying that the "appearance of the
article" is trademarked, but that mirrors/offline viewers meeting
certain guidelines (proper attribution? links to the source site?) get
an automatic license to the trademarked appearance.
I hope that someone who is more knowledgeable about the trademark
policy will tell me if i'm on the right track, or whether some other
means of protecting offline readers is envisioned.
--scott
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